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DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodb
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodb
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSpotifyMicrosoftPercona
Initial release20232014201320162015
Current release1.0, March 20232.7.6, April 20243.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hostedLinux
Data schemescheme-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C#
Java
PHP
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonoTransact SQLJavaScript
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationsimple rights management via user accountsyesAccess rights for users and roles
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DragonflyHeroicInfluxDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehousePercona Server for MongoDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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